Shevchenko T. I. Valaam Monastery and the formation of the Finnish Orthodox Church (1917-1957). Moscow: PSTGU Publishing House, 2013. 500 p. On the basis of the Orthodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities, a number of studies have been prepared on various aspects of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in the XX century. One of the most important areas of attention of PSTU researchers is the history of Russian Orthodoxy, which was forced to find itself outside the borders of the Russian state during the cataclysms of the XX century. Tatiana Ivanovna Shevchenko's monograph on the history of the Valaam Monastery and the Finnish Orthodox Church in the first half of the 20th century fits perfectly into this traditional area of research for St. Petersburg State University. In the study, the most valuable layer of sources is made up of materials from the Valaam Monastery archive, which show the complexity and diversity of life in the Moscow region.- 1. Bakonina S. N. Church life of the Russian emigration in the Far East in 1920-1931: On the materials of the Harbin Diocese, Moscow: PSTSU Publishing House, 2014; Legislation of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: (1921 - 2007)/Comp. by D. P. Anashkin. Moscow: PSTSU Publishing House, 2014; Efimov E. B. Aleutian and North American Diocese under St. Tikhon, Moscow: PSTSU Publishing House, 2012; Kostryukov A. A. Russkaya Zarubezhnaya Tserkva v 1925-1938 gg.: Jurisdictional Conflicts and Relations with the Moscow Church Authorities, Moscow: PSTSU Publishing House, 2011. page 337nastyrya in the interwar period. T. I. Shevchenko's diaries, letters, and memoirs of the monastery's leaders and nuns, primarily Hegumens Khariton (Dunaev) and Nestor (Kiselenkov), and the representative of the Old calendarists, Monk Iuvianus (Krasnoperov), contain unique testimonies about life and relationships among Russian Orthodox monastics who found themselves on the territory of independent Finland during the XX century. centuries. The ... Read more